Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.